Bathroom Progress
It’s time for some honesty… we didn’t fix the bathroom walls this weekend. Instead we did this: epic salsa/guacamole session! SO AMAZING.
We did, however, make a bit of progress so I thought I would share a few pictures. The main thing is that we got the Beatles picture framed and hung! We ordered the frame off of Craig Frames for only $23.99! They have a million frame sizes (and finishes!) to choose from, including the size we were looking for (14×22). Wooooo!
Now I just need to figure out what to put in that adorable little bucket Cindy gave me for the Bloom Into Spring Gift Exchange.
We also managed to get the towel rail that used to be next to the toilet and moved it to a cleaner, more useful location behind the door (more on this process later!).
And with two steps forward, we also took two step back (of course… this bathroom is never going to be done!). I managed to break the light fixture when I was trying to put the globe back on. Dumb light Erika… now we just have an ugly, blindingly bright light bulb sticking out of our wall.
Ugh. Now we have to figure out where we can get a replacement globe.
In other sort of disappointing news, we got the fabric swatch of that guitar pattern we loved for the shower curtain and I’m not sure the colors are quite right.
The grey is fine but the yellow is too golden… not the sunny, more lemon-y (obviously a word) yellow we have been using. Perhaps if we only use a bit of it, we can get away with the color difference. What are your thoughts?
Oh, and for those of you who are wondering, the salsa and guac were DELICIOUS! :)
Please excuse the bad pictures but I didn’t really have the heart to spend a lot of time and energy photographing this sad paint job. This failure of epic proportions was a combination of two things. The surface we painted on was not ideal… there was very glossy but cheap paint on the walls before (thus the reason it came off the walls too!) that practically repelled our new paint. If this were not a rental, we would have sanded it down to the drywall and started over. Sadly, this wasn’t really an option and, sadly, it obviously didn’t work out too well for us. Secondly, life got in the way and I waited way too long to remove the tape after the second coat. I think part of me thought we may need a third coat so I kept it on. But alas, we did not and the paint was happier sticking to the tape than it was the crappy, slippery wall underneath.
Yay! The shop owner even put a wall hanger on the back for us. :)
